In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful ...

If you crossed paths with Homo ergaster on an East African plain some 1.5 million to 2 million years ago, its silhouette might look a bit familiar. Long legs, a narrow torso, and a heat-adapted frame ...

The skull was first unearthed in Hubei Province in 1990, but its crushed shape made classification difficult. Using digital scans and 3D reconstruction, researchers now say it belongs not to Homo ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and ...